His Hideous Heart
By: Dahlia Adler
Narrated by: amanda lovelace, Caitlin Davies, Caleb Roehrig,...
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"His Hideous Heart is an audiobook dream. Half of the stories are read by their authors and the other half are read by professional narrators; all are delightful and, of course, haunting." -- Paste
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe... Read more
Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.
Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.
Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where... Read more
Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more
Harbor Lights
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axt...
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.
Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands... Read more
We Have Always Been Who We Are
By: Sofia T. Romero
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Inés del Castillo & Frankie Corzo
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From Pushcart Prize–nominated author Sofia T. Romero comes a breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism.In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels... Read more
View audiobookRoman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campb...
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of... Read more
View audiobookHoller, Child
By: LaToya Watkins
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson...
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
An extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.
*Texas Monthly
In Holler, Child’s eleven brilliant stories,... Read more
Disruptions
By: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday
Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A... Read more
After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
Narrated by: Abigail Thaw
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships — Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylists alive" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
A Best Book of the Year: TIME, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue
"Like Alice Munro, to whom she has... Read more
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
By: g. haron davis
Narrated by: Qamar Yochanan, Nicky Endres, Vico Ortiz & Avi ...
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories. Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and... Read more
View audiobookA Long Time Dead
By: Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: the first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform... Read more
View audiobookWhite Cat, Black Dog
By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, K...
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today’s finest short story writers—MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore,... Read more
If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
Narrated by: Torian Brackett
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of... Read more
Life Without Children
By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of... Read more
I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
By: Christopher Gonzalez
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Tony Chiroldes & Anthony Me...
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt these stories. A college grad reunites with a high-school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy-hour french fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit... Read more
View audiobookMy Monticello
By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, ...
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An AudioFile Earphones Award winner
Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King
“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle
"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer... Read more
Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Nicole Lewis & TL Thompson
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction... Read more
We Two Alone
By: Jack Wang
Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Natalie Naudus
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces... Read more
View audiobookAre You Enjoying?
By: Mira Sethi
Narrated by: Mira Sethi
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.
From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly... Read more
Love in Color
By: Bolu Babalola
Narrated by: Ajjaz Awad, Nneka Okoye, Bolu Babalola & Olukem...
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER""Love stories by and about marginalized women . . . The heroines are strong and sure . . . Babalola’s writing shines.” — New York Times Book Review""Absolutely intoxicating."" — Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last StopA vibrant debut collection of love stories... Read more
View audiobookReality
By: John Lanchester
Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Hugh Quarshie, Emilia Fox & A...
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.
A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the... Read more
Burning Girls and Other Stories
By: Veronica Schanoes
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons.
In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a fantasist in the vein of Karen... Read more
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
By: Cynthia L. Smith
Narrated by: Kenny Ramos & DeLanna Studi
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... Read more
View audiobookDaddy
By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.
“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An absentee father collects his son... Read more